Mentor

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Valerie has a horror of them all.--My son-in-law has never chosen to come to this house; why has he given himself such airs as a Mentor, a Spartan, a Puritan, a philanthropist?

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  • Phoenix Project was sysoped by no less a man than the Mentor himself, ably assisted by University of Texas student and hardened Doomster "Erik Bloodaxe As we have seen from his Phrack manifesto, the Mentor was a hacker zealot who regarded computer intrusion as something close to a moral duty. —  The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier
  • Valerie has a horror of them all.--My son-in-law has never chosen to come to this house; why has he given himself such airs as a Mentor, a Spartan, a Puritan, a philanthropist? —  Poor Relations
  • He and his Mentor were at variance. —  The Prime Minister
  • Is it possible not to suspect that the name Mentor was coined upon that of Nestor 21} i.e. in the outer court, and in the uncovered part of the inner house 22} This would be fair from Sicily, which was doing duty for Ithaca in the mind of the writer, but a North wind would have been preferable for a voyage from the real Ithaca to Pylos 23} [Greek] The wind does not whistle over waves. —  The Odyssey
  • Mentor is a large, stable company, but without the Dilbert-esque nature. —  fullasagoog.com full roast blend
 

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